SMC 2014 Speaker - Matt Nowak, Qualcomm - Abstract

Matt NowakSenior
Director of EngineeringQualcomm Technologies, Inc

Materials Innovation for the Digital 6th Sense Era

The smartphone has become humanity’s most pervasive technology platform, with
more people now accessing the internet over their phones than over personal
computers. Analysts predict ~ 8 billion smartphones will be shipped between
2014 and 2018, approximately equal to the entire world population, and more
than 20 billion “things” will be connected to the internet by 2020. The Qualcomm
vision for the next phase of the mobile wireless revolution is the “Digital 6th
Sense”, in which our human abilities will be augmented by our connection to
cyberspace, the cloud, and intelligent things through our smartphone. We will move through our days surrounded by connectivity that senses our
surroundings, evaluates our health and wellness, intelligently anticipates our
needs, and allows us to interact remotely with everyday objects, essentially blurring
physical space and cyberspace into a continuous experience that feels like a
natural extension of our senses.

To realize this vision, the semiconductor
industry must not only continue to deliver higher performance, lower power, and
reduced cost through CMOS scaling, but also innovate in chipset architecture
and packaging, and enable new functionality with More than Moore
technologies. New materials can play a critical role to solving the
challenges in achieving these goals and thus enabling the Digital 6th
Sense era.